-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 rlc wrote:
> Ehm.. how is this really different from: > alias d='ls -l' > ? Quite a bit, really. The canonical homepage does a good job of describing the differences, which is: http://pages.xtn.net/~ecogburn/d.html In addition, in Cygwin on Win2K, d /cygdrive/c/ will show pagefile.sys as mentioned in the ITP, unlike ls -l. As an example, let me show you the difference between the output of ls -l and d (this may come out slightly distorted based on the email line breaks and GPG sig, but you should get the picture): $ ls -l total 793 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Yaakov None 159 Aug 3 02:20 Desktop -> /usr/bin/%USE RPROFILE%/.gnome-desktop - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 556606 Sep 13 23:10 abs-guide-2.1.tar.bz2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 Yaakov None 148 Sep 21 22:25 bzip2.sh - -rw-r--r--+ 1 Administ None 2373 Sep 9 22:03 cvid.pl - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 21673 Sep 17 11:25 cygcheck.030620 drwxrwxrwx+ 14 Administ None 4096 Oct 1 03:23 devel drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Administ None 0 Sep 26 02:40 distro drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Yaakov None 0 Sep 26 02:36 help2man - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 112377 Sep 30 05:26 lcab-1.0b10.tar.gz - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 41402 Sep 29 09:17 msnlib-3.2.tar.bz2 - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 63555 Sep 27 21:30 pal-0.2.5.tgz - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 0 Sep 26 02:35 rpm.1 - -rw-r--r-- 1 Yaakov None 8437 Sep 15 02:11 tar.1 $ d /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%/: rwxrwxrwx Administrators:None 4K Oct 01 07:23 devel/ rwxrwxrwx Administrators:None 0 Sep 26 06:40 distro/ rwxr-xr-x Yaakov:None 0 Sep 26 06:36 help2man/ rwxrwxrwx Yaakov:None 159 Aug 03 06:20 Desktop->.gnome-desktop/ rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 544K Sep 14 03:10 abs-guide-2.1.tar.bz2 rwxr-xr-x Yaakov:None 148 Sep 22 02:25 bzip2.sh rw-r--r-- Administrators:None 2.3K Sep 10 02:03 cvid.pl rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 21K Sep 17 15:25 cygcheck.030620 rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 110K Sep 30 09:26 lcab-1.0b10.tar.gz rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 40K Sep 29 13:17 msnlib-3.2.tar.bz2 rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 62K Sep 28 01:30 pal-0.2.5.tgz rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 0 Sep 26 06:35 rpm.1 rw-r--r-- Yaakov:None 8.2K Sep 15 06:11 tar.1 9 regular files in directory, with a total size of 788K. $ (In bash, the item Desktop->.gnome-desktop/ from d fits on the line, where by ls, there's a line break in the middle of %USERPROFILE%. And yes, the summary line "9 regular files..." is produced by d. The colorization is also better with d than with ls -l --color, but I can't show you that here. :-) Anyway, I hope this answers your question. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96 iD8DBQE/eq3ZpiWmPGlmQSMRAgRuAJ94alAn61oxub3P8k8t/Smqkp/FWwCgiZxG 3vFf5xHOp9JEHpAr6f+lyDo= =Fwwz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
